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Rice Farm - Agriculture
Bangladesh   Photos   Rice   Weather   Wikipedia: International Rice Research Institute  
 IRINnews 
BANGLADESH: Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties
web | NAOGAON, 6 September 2010 (IRIN) - Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Abdul Aziz from Naogaon District in northwestern Bangladesh has had to adapt his plantings to increasingly erratic weather: â€... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
A woman farmer working in the field  -  Farmland
Agriculture   Climate   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Rain  
 PhysOrg 
In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor, new report says
--> | Against a backdrop of extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, a new report warns that increasingly erratic rainfall related to climate change will pose a major threat to food security a... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
A rescue worker runs at a mudslide area in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.  The Times Of India 
Guatemala declares 'national tragedy' as several killed in landslides
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 36 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for dozens still missing. | Co... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing.  Zeenews 
Mudslides kill at least 22 on Guatemala highway
Guatemala City: Officials say that mudslides on a Guatemalan highway have killed at least 22 people. Scores more are missing. | Police say the first slide yesterday buried a bus under tons of mud at k... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
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INDIA-WEATHER-RAINIndia Weather Rain  at Kolkata in Eastern India City ---- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK The Times Of India
Heavy rains lash Delhi
NEW DELHI: Heavy rains lashed Delhi overnight leading to water logging at several places and throwing traffic out of gear, even as weather department said that monsoon is... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Delhi   Monsoon   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Monsoon  
Tomato Plant - Tomatoes - Planting - Crop The Examiner
Not all local gardens are suffering because of the extreme weather
| “It might be very easy, given the extreme weather the Knoxville area has been experiencing this growing season, to automatically assume that all the gardens that are ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Garden   Greenhouse   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Gardening  
Corn Plant - Crop - Farming - Agriculture The Examiner
Local corn patch hit hard by the extreme weather of this summer's growing season
| “One local gardener,” D. Hopkinson, former owner/partner in the DanDe Greenhouse here in Clinton, Tennessee, reports, “prepared and planted a new corn patch in la... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Corn   Greenhouse   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Maize  
A man protects himself with an umbrella as he rides a bike in Antigua, Guatemala, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Al Jazeera
Guatemala hit by severe weather
| Unrelenting rains and severe weather have lashed Guatemala, leaving at least 21 people dead over the past 24 hours, in what the country's president calls a "nation... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Vehicles drive on a road damaged after heavy rains in Santa Lucia Milpas Altas, Guatemala, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. BBC News
Heavy rains devastate Guatemala
A state of emergency has been declared in Guatemala, where days of heavy rain have caused widespread flooding and landslides. | At least 18 people have been killed, inclu... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Emergency   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Sacks of rice - Food - Grain - Commodity Gulf News
Wheat rises on Russian trade ban
| Moscow/Maputo/Chicago: Wheat rose to the highest level in three weeks last week on signs of increased demand for US supplies as world inventories are forecast to f... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Photos   Russia   Trade   Wheat   Wikipedia: Wheat  
Rice - Food - Grains - Commodity The Telegraph India
Global food price hike worries UN
United Nations, Sept. 4: Agricultural experts today cast a wary eye on the steep rise in the cost of wheat prompted by a Russian export ban and the questions looming over... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Agricultural   Food   Photos   Price   Wikipedia: Agriculture  
Climate Change - Environment - Global Warming Syracuse
Today's letters: global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. economy, disabled, New York State Fair
| We must begin cutting | greenhouse emissions | To the Editor: | We in Central New York have been noticing the extremes of weather for the past year. This extreme weathe... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Climate   Emissions   Greenhouse   Photos   Wikipedia: Global warming  
Fruits and Vegetables - Vitamin Source The Examiner
It's time to start preparing for your fall Vegetable garden!
| Fall in the Carolinas is a lovely time.  The heat of the summer is subsiding, and colorful annuals and perennials start blooming in the cooler weather.  The leaves on... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Food   People   Photos   Vegetables   Wikipedia: vegetables  
Dr. Prisco Nilo, chief of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration, PAGASA, points to the satellite image of the latest weather disturbance, tropical storm "Lupit" locally known as "Ramil" during another briefing Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 at Manila's Quezon city in the Philippines. Inquirer
Move on, science chief urges ex-PAGASA head
| MANILA, Philippines—Prisco Nilo, the weather bureau chief who was fired by President Benigno Aquino III last month, should 'move on,' said Science and Technology Secret... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)
Manila   Photos   Science   Weather   Wikipedia: Prisco Nilo  
Climate Change Storms & Hurricanes
- BANGLADESH: Population pressure, climate change drive search
- In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat
- Climate change may lead to decline in bee pollination
- On climate change, an embarrassment
Rice Farm - Agriculture
BANGLADESH: Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties
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- Hermine strengthens off Mexico
- Here comes Hermine - Tropical storm threatens south Texas co
- Tropical storm remnants could bring showers to Tulsa this we
- Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
National Hurricane Center, deputy director Ed Rappaport, tracks tropical storm Ida at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.
New tropical storm heads toward Mexico, U.S.
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Floods Droughts
- Pakistan races to protect two towns from surging floods
- Straight flush for Murray mouth
- Hermine strengthens off Mexico
- Here comes Hermine - Tropical storm threatens south Texas co
Rice Farm - Agriculture
BANGLADESH: Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties
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- Towns go from drought to drenched in a day
- Robbie Keane Must Accept a Glorious Chance to End his Goal D
- Swiss dismiss goal drought worries Reuters - Mon, 06 Sep 12:
- Swiss captain Frei shrugs off goal drought and jeers
INDIA-DRY-PADDY-FIELDIndia dry paddy field , these year no rainfall in eastern India most part in west bengal ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
Farmers in drought-hit Bengal turn to suicide
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Environment Pollution
- Cockroaches could help fight deadly infections, say UK scien
- Cougar boosts testing in bid to reopen plant
- HSBC predicts bigger growth for low-carbon cars than renewab
- A dimmer view of Earth
Asian cockroach (sl1)
Cockroaches could help fight deadly infections, say UK scientists
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- Molecular imaging opens up a vast new world for neuroscience
- Obama unveils $50B road, rail plan
- Labor (Less) Day?
- Merkel sets stage for nuclear power battle
The Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant in Germany:
Germany to extend life of nuclear reactors
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Wildlife Natural Disasters
-  Woman jailed for defrauding KZN wildlife
- A plague stalks sleeping bats
- Longport Beach harbors huge colony of nesting endangered bla
- Unruly monkey captured after week-long operation in Orissa
 A white-winged vampire bat pup, that researchers are saying is the first captive birth in the United States of the rare vampire bat, is shown in Tijeras, N.M., Dec. 26, 2002. A colony of the bats was rescued from the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad.
A plague stalks sleeping bats
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- Tropical storm remnants could bring showers to Tulsa this we
- Weather History: September 6: Tropics, Record Heat, Cold, St
- NOAA satellite video shows Hurricane Earl as it tracks up U.
- In Brief: Kenya floods displace hundreds as dry spell foreca
Sugar - Sweetener - Commodity
Sugar output poised to rise 17% to meet demand
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